FundsXpress Adds Phone-Rate Search Service to Portana Portal

AUSTIN, Texas – FundsXpress is adding to its financial services portals a nationwide service that helps consumers find the cheapest local, long distance and wireless phone rates. SmartPrice.com’s online telecommunications market place will now have a spot on the Portana portal that FundsXpress deploys for its Internet banking clients, the companies said. “Any service that provides bottom line savings to our consumers is of value to us,” said Greg Constantine, executive vice president at FundsXpress. “The financial institution’s Web site is no longer viewed by the consumer as just a place to make financial transactions, but becomes a trusted source of information, luring account holders back to their site repeatedly, thereby allowing financial institutions to cross-sell more of their own products,” Constantine said. “Our services will provide FundsXpress’ financial institutions’ customers with a breadth of choices of long distance plans, along with regular notifications on how they can achieve up to 65% savings on their long distance and wireless services. We are confident this demographic will highly value this service,” said Jim McKinley, vice president of marketing for SmartPrice.com.